Senior Manager, Digital Supply Chain

Copeland•St Louis, MO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Digital Supply Chain is a strategic, center-led leadership role responsible for designing, piloting, launching, and sustaining the company’s next-generation End-to-End Supply Chain Planning system (Oracle) across a global network of Business Units (BUs) and their associated manufacturing sites. This role serves as the primary business owner for the planning-system transformation—defining success criteria, aligning global stakeholders, championing standardized processes, and ensuring the platform delivers meaningful value to operations, planning, customer service, procurement, and executive leadership. The ideal candidate combines deep system-implementation expertise with hands-on supply chain planning experience, strong cross-functional influence, and exceptional ability to translate complexity into clear business outcomes. They must exercise decisive judgment, quantify risk, communicate confidently with senior leaders, and establish boundaries that protect project integrity and long-term sustainability. This role is central to elevating our enterprise planning maturity. The standards, data structures, and planning processes developed through this Oracle transformation directly enable stronger S&OE (0–13 weeks) and SIOP (3–18 months) performance across the company. As a center-led leader, the Senior Manager ensures that the E2E planning system becomes the backbone of our short-term execution and long-term planning cycles—improving visibility, decision quality, risk identification, and cross-functional alignment enterprise-wide.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or related field.
8–12+ years of progressive supply chain planning experience (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Scheduling, SIOP/S&OP).
5+ years leading major planning-system implementations (Oracle preferred; other platforms such as SAP IBP, Kinaxis, O9, Anaplan are acceptable).
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional projects in complex, global manufacturing environments.
Deep understanding of planning parameters, master data, forecast consumption, constraint-based planning, and end-to-end process flows.
Exceptional communication skills—capable of simplifying complexity, influencing senior leaders, and translating technical issues into business impacts.
Strong “voice of reason” with the ability to define boundaries, make difficult tradeoffs, and maintain project discipline.
Proven ability to identify, quantify, and articulate risks and opportunities.

Nice To Haves

Experience harmonizing multiple ERP/MRP systems into a unified planning layer.
Experience in a Center of Excellence or multi-site leadership role.
Master’s degree or APICS/ASCM certification (CPIM, CSCP, CLTD).
Exposure to digital transformation, AI/ML analytics, or advanced planning optimization.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end implementation of the new Oracle Supply Chain Planning platform, covering Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Capacity Planning, and Scenario Modeling.
Serve as the business lead for the initiative; define business requirements, future-state processes, success criteria, milestones, and guardrails.
Partner deeply with IT as the primary business counterpart to ensure functional design aligns with operational needs across all BUs.
Oversee pilots, phased rollouts, validation cycles, and global adoption models ensuring consistent execution across regions.
Develop and drive standard global planning workflows, data structures, and governance models—enabling all BUs to operate under a unified planning process regardless of differing ERPs, MRPs, or legacy practices.
Establish a scalable sustainability model for long-term system maintenance, enhancements, and training.
Ensure harmonized planning hierarchies, item attributes, calendars, and key planning parameters across all sites.
Translate complex technical and planning concepts into clear, concise messages for business leaders.
Facilitate workshops with functional groups (BU Planning Leads, IT, Operations, Customer Service, Finance, Procurement).
Lead organizational-change efforts including communication, role clarity, training, and process readiness.
Advocate for disciplined decision-making; establish “rules of engagement” and hold stakeholders accountable.
Identify, quantify, and communicate project risks and impacts transparently to leadership.
Recommend mitigation paths grounded in data, process rigor, and business realities.
Recognize when to escalate issues and possess the fortitude to challenge decisions that jeopardize system integrity or sustainability.
Develop long-term digital capabilities including master data governance, KPI dashboards, predictive analytics, and workflow automation.
Partner with the Director of Supply Chain Planning to integrate system outputs into S&OE, SIOP, and strategic planning rhythms.
Build planning-system standards, governance structures, and E2E data flows that directly enhance S&OE and SIOP outcomes across all BUs.
Ensure that short-term execution metrics (RDSL/PDSL, supply adherence, production readiness) and long-term demand/supply balancing processes (demand consensus, supply shaping, financial alignment) are fully supported by the planning platform’s capabilities.
Drive alignment so that all BU planning teams use harmonized tools, data definitions, and system logic—creating a consistent “single version of truth” feeding all planning horizons.
Establish robust linkages between lower-level planning logic (MRP, detailed scheduling inputs, BOM accuracy, lead times, ATP/CTP rules) and higher-level business rhythms, enabling measurable improvements in predictability and performance.